economizing on (verb) eke out: make something last
Sinonime: amplify,
babble, be diffuse, beat around bush, blather,
chatter, depart, descant, digress, divagate, diverge, drift,
drivel, dwell on,
enlarge, excurse, expatiate, get off the subject, go astray, go off on tangent, go on and on,
gossip, harp on, lose the thread, maunder, meander,
prose, protract, rant and rave, rattle on,
stray, talk nonsense, talk off top of head, talk randomly, wander
Antonime: be direct